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Meanings of milkmaid in English

Portuguese
leiteira
Catalan
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A woman who works in a dairy.

leiteira
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Examples for "dairymaid"
Examples for "dairymaid"
1
He returned, and announced that the dairymaid was then at the farm.
The Woman in White
2
We have no women except old Bella and the dairymaid at Ashness.
The Buccaneer Farmer / Published in England under the Title "Ask...
3
Elizabeth Sarfenet lived as a dairymaid at Newpark farm, in this parish.
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 / Scientific Papers (Physiology, ...
4
Train describes the action of a careful farmer's wife or dairymaid thus:-
Folk Lore / Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within...
5
The dairymaid wipes her lips with the back of her hand.
Fortitude
Usage of milkmaid in English
1
But I am not an admirer of the milkmaid type of beauty.
A Romance of Two Worlds: A Novel
2
But the pretty milkmaid was much too vexed to make any answer.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
3
In later years her milkmaid freshness owed, perhaps, something to this upbringing.
Mary Gray
4
Are you sure I don't look rather blowsy, and like a milkmaid?
Herb of Grace
5
A milkmaid turned her pail upside down and hid in it.
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
6
Our childish minds imagined the Acadian milkmaid far from her Nova Scotia birthplace.
Bones to Ashes
7
The milkmaid's trackless course led her up the hill and past this erection.
The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid
8
Then let them keep her and make a milkmaid of her.
Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851
9
Christophe knew her; she was a little milkmaid at Lorchen's farm.
Jean-Christophe, Volume I
10
There are times when I simply long to be a milkmaid.
The Camp Fire Girls Go Motoring; Or, Along the Road That Leads t...
11
Such a phrase might suit a pretty little red-cheeked milkmaid of a girl.
Framley Parsonage
12
A gallant, riding by, has dismounted, and is kissing the milkmaid.
The Green Carnation
13
The farmer's daughter, who was a milkmaid, used to tend the gold-horned cow.
The Pot of Gold, and Other Stories
14
Angélique was not, however, a milkmaid to say yes before she was asked.
The Golden Dog
15
You make me wish that I was a milkmaid or a farmer's wife.
The Prime Minister
16
And at lunch, too, Marguerite stained her milkmaid's dress all over with jam.
A Love Episode
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